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191

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2018 - CSSA Presidential Award, American Society of Agronomy
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Elizabeth A. Ainsworth is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant emphasis on environmental science. They have contributed extensively to the understanding of plant science and atmospheric interactions, particularly in relation to climate change and crop productivity.

Their recent notable publications include:

  • 30 years of free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?, 2020, Global Change Biology
  • Towards a multiscale crop modelling framework for climate change adaptation assessment, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Climate change challenges, plant science solutions, 2022, The Plant Cell
  • Simulating Agriculture in the Community Land Model Version 5, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences
  • Unique contributions of chlorophyll and nitrogen to predict crop photosynthetic capacity from leaf spectroscopy, 2020, Journal of Experimental Botany

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ainsworth include:

  • Kaiyu Guan
  • Carl J. Bernacchi
  • Christopher M. Montes
  • Andrew D. B. Leakey
  • Shuai Li

The most common publication venues for their work are:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • New Phytologist

The key fields of study covered in their research are:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, their research addresses various subfields including:

  • Plant Science
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Main topics they have explored involve:

  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Soybean genetics and cultivation
  • Leaf Properties and Growth Measurement
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Elizabeth A. Ainsworth has been recognized with several awards, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 2020. They were named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science twice, once in 1981 and again in 2019. Additionally, they received the CSSA Presidential Award from the American Society of Agronomy in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Estimation of total phenolic content and other oxidation substrates in plant tissues using Folin-Ciocalteu reagent.

    Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Kelly M Gillespie

  • What have we learned from 15 years of free-air CO2 enrichment (FACE)? A meta-analytic review of the responses of photosynthesis, canopy properties and plant production to rising CO2.

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Stephen P. Long

  • The response of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance to rising [CO2]: mechanisms and environmental interactions.

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Alistair Rogers

  • Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide: plants FACE the future

    Stephen P. Long;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Alistair Rogers;Alistair Rogers;Donald R. Ort

  • Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO2 Concentrations

    Stephen P. Long;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Andrew D. B. Leakey;Josef Nösberger

  • Elevated CO2 effects on plant carbon, nitrogen, and water relations: six important lessons from FACE

    Andrew D. B. Leakey;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi;Alistair Rogers;Alistair Rogers

  • Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

    Julia Bailey-Serres;Julia Bailey-Serres;Jane E. Parker;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Giles E. D. Oldroyd

  • The Effects of Tropospheric Ozone on Net Primary Productivity and Implications for Climate Change

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Craig R. Yendrek;Stephen Sitch;William J. Collins

  • Photosynthesis, Productivity, and Yield of Maize Are Not Affected by Open-Air Elevation of CO2 Concentration in the Absence of Drought

    Andrew D.B. Leakey;Martin Uribelarrea;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Shawna L. Naidu

  • Quantifying the impact of current and future tropospheric ozone on tree biomass, growth, physiology and biochemistry: a quantitative meta‐analysis

    Victoria E. Wittig;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Shawna L. Naidu;David F. Karnosky

  • Rice production in a changing climate: a meta-analysis of responses to elevated carbon dioxide and elevated ozone concentration

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

  • A meta-analysis of elevated [CO2] effects on soybean (Glycine max) physiology, growth and yield

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Phillip A. Davey;Carl J. Bernacchi;Orla C. Dermody

  • To what extent do current and projected increases in surface ozone affect photosynthesis and stomatal conductance of trees? A meta-analytic review of the last 3 decades of experiments.

    Victoria E. Wittig;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Stephen P. Long

  • Impact of elevated ozone concentration on growth, physiology, and yield of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.): a meta‐analysis

    Zhaozhong Feng;Zhaozhong Feng;Kazuhiko Kobayashi;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

  • 30 years of free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE): What have we learned about future crop productivity and its potential for adaptation?

    Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Stephen P Long;Stephen P Long

  • How does elevated ozone impact soybean? A meta‐analysis of photosynthesis, growth and yield

    P. B. Morgan;Elizabeth Ainsworth;Stephen P Long

  • Carbohydrate export from the leaf - A highly regulated process and target to enhance photosynthesis and productivity.

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Daniel R. Bush

  • Testing the “source–sink” hypothesis of down-regulation of photosynthesis in elevated [CO2] in the field with single gene substitutions in Glycine max

    Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Alistair Rogers;Alistair Rogers;Randall Nelson;Randall Nelson;Stephen P Long

  • Measurement of reduced, oxidized and total ascorbate content in plants

    Kelly M Gillespie;Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Elizabeth A Ainsworth

  • Global food insecurity. Treatment of major food crops with elevated carbon dioxide or ozone under large-scale fully open-air conditions suggests recent models may have overestimated future yields

    Stephen P Long;Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Elizabeth A Ainsworth;Andrew D.B Leakey;Patrick B Morgan

  • Understanding and improving global crop response to ozone pollution.

    Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew D. B. Leakey
Andrew D. B. Leakey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen P. Long
Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alistair Rogers
Alistair Rogers Brookhaven National Laboratory
Donald R. Ort
Donald R. Ort University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Randall L. Nelson
Randall L. Nelson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xin-Guang Zhu
Xin-Guang Zhu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kaiyu Guan
Kaiyu Guan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lauren M. McIntyre
Lauren M. McIntyre University of Florida
David F. Karnosky
David F. Karnosky Michigan Technological University

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